Morning journal and courier., 1887-11-02
ONE OF THE vERNON,s CREW
Picked Up on a Raft on Which There
 Was Also a Dead Body.

Was Also a Dead Body.
 MILWAUKEE. Nov. 1.-The Journals Sur geon Bay (Wis.) special says: The schooner Pomeroy passed through this bay to-day with Alfred Stone, one of the crew of the ill-fated steamer Vernon, on board. He was picked up last night about eight miles from Sheboy- gan on raft on which with him was 8 dead body It was not ascertained what the dead mans name was. Stone says he awoke as the vessel was sinking and jumping through a window he found life raft with six per sons on it. The other five, however, had all perished before he was rescued. He says there were fifty people on board the Vernon when she foundered. NINE DEAD AND TWO WOUNDED. The Terrible Work Done by an ExpiO-
 sion in a Grocery Store.
 ST. LOUIS, Nov. IA terrific explosion occurred about two o'clock this morning in the grocery store of Michael Newman, No. 7 South Fourteenth street. The grocery and two adjoining two-story brick buildings were demolished and many persons were buried in the ruins. The cause of the explo- sion is a mystery, some attributing it to the criminal use of dynamite, others to powder stored in the building, and still others to the accidental explosion of gasoline. The people sleeping in the house were: c. N. Devere and wife, Michael Newman, his wife Annie and their children, Mamie, John, Edward, Nellie and Katie. The iremen by 3:15 q. m. had succeeded in clearing away space about ten feet square in the center of the ruins. A faint cry of agony broke on their ears. Fire was creeping in on three sides, but they fought of the flames to prevent the cremation of the suffering living we'll as the remains of the dead. A child in the last torture of death was handed out and placed in an ambulance and started toward the dspensary. A moment later Annie Newman's Efeless body was found clasping in her arms her dead daughter, Katie, aged eleven. The corpse of Michael Newman was found at the same time. These were man gled and charred in horrible manner. All the Nswmans had been taken out and all might as well be counted dead, as the two suffering children will die At 4:20 the bod ies of Mir. and Mrs. Devere were found hor- rib1y mangled and burned. Also the body of Miss Peevly, who slept in adjoining room.
 The only survivor taken from either No. 2 or No. is Miss Hattie Brown, the sister and visitor of Mrs. Devere. She states that she awoke to find herself buried between heavy timbers somewhere against a wall, while crushing tinnbers and clattering iron flew in storm above her head. The screams of per sons in adjoining buildings were fearful. She ! essayed to escape, but was firmly pinned
 down. At last settling of the wreck par tially released the pressure and she struggled
 from beneath the debris. How she made her l way to the little back yard where she was found she cannot tell, except that 1t was staggering, falling, climbing and falling | again, over, through or from the ruins. l The correct list of the dead and wounded by 1 the explosion makes the total nine dead and two wounded seriously. Six others reported missing who lived in the building have been Six of the Newman family are dead. Nellie, l the only remaining member of the family, | lies in terrible condition, but may recover. 1 Charles N. Devers and wife and Mrs. Agnes Beasley are dead Miss Hattie Bryant is badly bruised. The financial loss caused by 1 the explosion will not exceed $20, ,O0O